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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: The Lesbian Premodern
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Theories and Historiographies
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Readings and Histories
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Encounters With the Lesbian Premodern
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Keywords
About this book
Reviews
"The editors of The Lesbian Premodern have gathered here the work of some of the most prominent and accomplished scholars of pre- and early modern female sexualities. In the brilliantly conceived and executed latter part of the book they bring provocative scholars of later periods into conversation with this medieval and early modern scholarship. The result is a dynamic interrogation of fundamental concepts, demonstrating vividly how this pre- and early modern material impacts the entire field." - Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
"It has been the case for some time now that the most rigorous and mind-bending queer scholarship focuses on medieval and early modern sexualities. This collection represents what is best in this work, and clears the way for an open-ended conversation across periods. Prepare to be schooled in the pleasures of anachronism." - Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
"The Lesbian Premodern's editors have collected a rich and flexible set of texts that speak to and out of myriad sources to discover sites where same-sex desire might be discerned in small gaps in the history of the inaudible . . . The Lesbian Premodern's daring derives from its editors' purposeful gathering of texts that tangle temporalities to make a nonmodern lesbian - italics and quotation mark free - typographically possible." - Michèle Aina Barale, Amherst College
"The Lesbian Premodern is a stunning achievement in laying the groundwork for along overdue transhistorical sexuality studies, one that does not assume simplistic diachronicities between the past and present, but which instead tracks and problematizes the complex and untimely traffic between 'Then' and 'Now' . . . . What emerges is a potent and unprecedented framework for the writing of new lesbian histories and theories, as well as the forging of new relational virtualities between scholars who might otherwise never 'hook up'." - Eileen A. Joy, editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies and Lead Ingenitor, BABEL Working Group
About the authors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Lesbian Premodern
Editors: Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, Diane Watt
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117198
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61676-9Published: 11 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38018-3Published: 11 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11719-8Published: 31 January 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 236
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Medieval Literature, Cultural History, Social History, History of Medieval Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History